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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! Week #53 news update!
This week, we’ll be discussing:
– Phantasm Re-Translation
– Yakuaru Open Source translation guide.- Satiator Firmware Update- Disc Cleaner #BestOfSaturn
Originally premiered: March 25th, 2022Foll…
News
Sega of Japan announced today the Mega Drive Mini 2, the latest in their line of plug-and-play devices. It’s set to come with more than 50 classic games from both…
Community
While the Saturn had a variety of great controllers and peripherals, a vast majority would agree that the 3D Analog Control Pad was perhaps one of the greatest. Dreamcast also…
Best Of Saturn
A popular entry of the long-running series, Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire is a Koei release. A deep management and war strategy game, this title demands…
News
Over the weekend, Libretro updated the Beetle Saturn core for its RetroArch emulation platform, bringing with it support for running Saturn games on Android devices. Good news – not only…
News
Once again, YouTube channel 裏路地Gamers (Back Alley Gamers) has managed to acquire on loan another rare and unreleased Japanese Saturn game, RENSA Love Chain from owner HRD-Chan 4078.The release candidate (v1.00) of RENSA (Love…
News
Fenrir creator Ced2911 released a new firmware update for the optical drive emulator on Wednesday. Version 1.5.5 improves the speed of loading games, introduces minor fixes and adds support for…
Community
Patrick’s walkthrough of the Saturn MiSTer FPGA alpha core After more than a year in development, a preliminary iteration of the Saturn core for the MiSTer FPGA was released over…
Best Of Saturn
Black/Matrix is a story-driven strategy RPG released mid-1998, set in an alternate universe where the forces of Hell successfully defeated the forces of Heaven. Full of Judeo-Christian iconography and themes,…
News
On May 20, 2022, YouTube channel 裏路地Gamers (Back Alley Gamers) announced it had received the ever so rare and unreleased copy of Monica no Shiro (Monica’s Castle – aka Faradoon)…
Community
SegaRPGFan (aka eaudunord) has done it again! The same guy who worked with Xiden to bring us the original exploit for NetLink play over VoIP, and the same who brought…
News
The first update to Layer Section & Galactic Attack S-Tribute is out on PlayStation 4, bringing a few quality of life upgrades to the Saturn classic. The patch dropped today…
Best Of Saturn
Sakura Taisen (Sakura Wars) is a 1996 collaboration between SEGA and Red Company. The game, dubbed a ‘dramatic adventure’, is part visual novel, part dating sim, and part strategy RPG…
Community
Back on April 26th,Twitter account TZMWX (the individual behind the Sega Saturn Portable project) announced incorporation of a size-reduced Fenrir ODE, further enhancing the overall versatility and capability of the…
Best Of Saturn
The game that launched alongside the Saturn 27 years ago in the West. Representing a shift for SEGA and influencing the future of videogames as a whole, VF portrayed real…
Community
Well, it’s been a long time coming, and more than a few of you are probably tired of hearing about, yet not being able to see it… However, the wait…
News
As many of you typically know, VMUs, while a cool concept of memory card, have a couple of problems. The biggest (Or not biggest depending how you look at it)…
Best Of Saturn
Metal Fighter Miku is part visual novel, part QTE adventure style futu-wrestling game based on the 13-episode 1994 anime. Set in the year 2061 where wrestlers wear futuristic armor, you…
News
The remake of The House of the Dead didn’t take long to hit other platforms after it debuted on the Switch in early April. On Thursday, Forever Entertainment published the…
Best Of Saturn
Always hovering amongst the greatest Bomberman games of all time, Saturn Bomberman doesn’t disappoint. Play through a single player story mode or step up to one of the greatest mupliplayer…
News
As alluded to by its North American eShop listing, Layer Section & Galactic Attack S-Tribute released today in the West on the Switch, PlayStation Network, Xbox Store and Steam. Its…
News
City Connection announced that classic Saturn shoot-em-up Galactic Attack will launch in Japan on the Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on April 28, with the Steam version coming “later.”…
News
After the success of Sonic Mania, and the recent success of the Sonic The Hedgehog 2 film, SEGA has finally announced a Sonic collection for the latest gen consoles! The…
Best Of Saturn
The earliest effort from what would become the legendary Vanillaware team, Atlus’ Princess Crown is an absolutely gorgeous 2D showpiece action/beat-em-up/RPG. Play as Queen Gradriel and crush the demonic forces…
News
Another game that appeared on the Japanese Saturn has received a modern remake — and even better, it now has an official English localization for the first time. It’s Dōkyūsei,…
Community
A workaround has been found for users unable to get past the difficulty screen added to the English localization of Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen. Patch developer…
PandaMonium Reviews
It was possibly the closest Konami got in history to publishing a Parodius game in North America. A “deluxe pack” featuring near arcade-perfect ports of the second and third installments…
News
The House of the Dead is one of the most well-known light gun shooters that was ported from the arcades to the Saturn, and now audiences have access to it…
Community
As if the Ogre Battle English Translation wasn’t enough, we get a DOUBLE WHAMMY ON THE SAME DAY! Supper on the SEGA Xtreme forums shadow dropped a fan translation for…
Community
Today, April 6, 2022, Meduza Team (specifically Paul Met, Pennywise & Aishsha) have released v1.0 of their English translation patch for Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen. “The…
Editorial
“SONIC 2 was so much fun! It was hilariously bonkers and not remotely grounded in reality.., which is great! The film is self-aware of its outlandish premise and rolls with…
Community
We’ve recently been made aware of an amazing review series similar to PandaMonium Reviews channel, but for the entire Sakura Wars series. For those of you not in the know,…
Best Of Saturn
The recently unearthed Saturn version of Tomb Raider 2 was actually completed back in 1997 but due to Eidos’ deal with Sony for exclusivity, was buried at the time. ‘Hardware…
News
A homebrew programmer is resurrecting the unfinished, unreleased Saturn game Sonic Xtreme — and it’s not an April Fools’ Day joke.A person named Voxel on the SegaXtreme Discord server uploaded…
Community
In a community announcement today, March 28, 2022, hitomi2500 stated that WASCA (an aspiring “Swiss Army Knife” -type cart solution for Sega Saturn) would be migrating over to the much…